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having to install and fiddle with a whole other program just to get permissions right for an app is so annoying lol. I like flatpaks for some stuff but really I prefer the distro version unless there's a compelling reason (package not available or woefully out of date in the repo, etc)
Yeah it's mostly the Steam client being a proprietary piece of garbage since virtually all flathub apps have the correct permissions set (that's from my experience of using flathub for all my desktop apps since I use Fedora Kinoite). Same with Discord since there's now like 5 different webclients on Flathub just because Discord refuses to update their shitty electron app. I just don't want folks installing 32 bit libraries on their core system when flatpak is much cleaner (also better for getting support since its all one runtime). Same thing with Wine (which is on version 6 due to Mint being on 22.04's package base when current stable is version 9!)
KDE Plasma has permissions built-in to its settings so I'm hoping GNOME and Cinnamon follow suit.
I audibly gasped when I first found out how old most of the libraries are in the discord client. they were updated in canary for better wayland support like 6 months ago and I've heard nothing since. With steam dropping 32bit support hopefully those of us with native steam can offload those libraries soon^TM^
Don't know you case for Discord, but you should check out Webcord, it works like a charm with Wayland (yeah I'm 11 days late)